I'm returning late to this, I know, but LED traffic lights are increasingly in use here in the U.K. - we're taking a little longer to adopt the flashing amber light used widely in Europe.
Essentially, when the traffic lights are in use, the normal colours are displayed. When they're not in use (at off-peak times), the amber light flashes. The standard signal for "proceed with caution, following the usual rules of the road." This negates the need for a confusing fourth light, or icons. Traffic lights are not usually an issue for colour-blind road users.
The Germans and Dutch have been removing road signs and lights from roads for a few years now in experiments based on the theory that making roads more "dangerous" forces drivers to be more careful.
From http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2143663,00.html, "When you don't exactly know who has right of way, you tend to seek eye contact with other road users,'' he said. ''You automatically reduce your speed, you have contact with other people and you take greater care."
My father took part in a double-blind experiment similar to the one you describe four years ago. He didn't know whether the dish was on or not and reported no symptoms, adverse or otherwise.
Last year he had a tumour removed from his brain, the doctors estimated it had been growing for at least a couple of years. He contacted the university group he'd volunteered for. They looked up the research data. Turns out he had been one of the individuals exposed to higher 2.4GHz radiation (the dish was switched on).
The result was statistically irrelevant to their findings but it's hard to shake a niggling anecdotal doubt in his mind, theirs, and mine, that maybe the research and the tumour were connected.
...as the second photo in TOA shows - a difference in position can markedly effect the image of the bend and thus the driver's perception of the right speed or approach to that bend.
Using a 2D display space (the windshield interior) to provide information about a 3D (real-world outside foggy road) space carries flaws.
The display needs to know the driver's eye position to create an accurate representation of where the edge of the road should be in their vision. Without this, I assume the display would be calibrated for an "average" driving position. This poses problems not only for short, tall or just low-slung drivers slouched in their seats, but also fails to accommodate that in low visibility most people change their driving position and "crane their necks" or stick their heads forwards in order to give the impression of being able to see better through the fog.
I'd be interested to know how closely this links with protein structure and self-assembly. It's called secondary and tertiary (and, to a degree, quartenary) structure with proteins and occurs thousands of times a second in living cells, self-catalysed and at room (or body) temperature in most cases: relatively simple long-chain molecules composed from only 20 possible different elements (amino acids) will become incredibly complex structures capable of anything from incredible structural strength to active motor function to similarly complex replication.
While I can see how this may make academic courses more appealing to students, I don't understand the extrapolation to "the workforce" - in a good workplace, there SHOULD BE clearly defined goals, incremental rewards and balanced effort and reward. Any decent manager could tell you that.
...risks of human and machine error are obvious, and these likely increase as the robots become increasingly autonomous... This must give pause to anyone who's ever spent time coding or debugging or even driving certain willful late model automobiles
However, given that all military programming should conform to the Fully Formal MIL-STD-948 standard, it should be a good deal more robust than most civilian software.
Although, as you say, hardware issues and operator error are another matter...
To achieve this so-called "interoperability," the Commission requires Microsoft to provide protocols--the rules of how to communicate between the so-called "client" computers and servers, and between the servers themselves.
But providing that information sweeps away Microsoft's intellectual-property rights, the company said.
"The Commission calls for functional equivalence," Microsoft lawyer Ian Forrester said, referring to the level of smoothness software needs to work well with Windows. "In order to achieve that, you have to go far beyond interoperability."
Possibly over-simplified and similar to the "Microsoft owns English" analogy, but if you invent a language, it's in your interest for people to speak it, so saying you're not going to teach people how to speak that language is like shooting yourself in the foot.
But I do like the quote from MS's lawyer about "the level of smoothness software needs to work well with Windows".:)
The UK government are trying to introduce all-encompassing ID cards at the moment.
ID cards are useful - I'd agree that while having all your information in one place can be handy, it surely makes fraudulent use easier if you can thereby carry everything you need to "authenticate" several different identities.
While many of the UK government's reasongings may be considered spurious, combatting terrorism and suchlike, they have provided one convincing argument, namely that that "biometric nonsense" ensures that each person has only _one_ ID, whether it's "false" or not, thereby preventing multiple IDs. It shouldn't be possible to register multiple IDs if a simple biometric database search links each of them.
I've noticed that when I'm making long, steady mouse movements in Photoshop that I hold my breath. I do the same when taking photographs. I have no idea why I do this but I suspect that I don't blink either.
Later today I will attempt to walk _and_ chew gum.
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"Banning all" and "allowing" are fine legal positions - to "ban most cell use" is a very dodgy grey area hard to define or defend.
Yes, I'm really looking forward to a film by Roland Emmerich about the life of William Shakespeare...
...who found it ironic that a film with "Independence" in the title had quite so many product placements in it.
I'm returning late to this, I know, but LED traffic lights are increasingly in use here in the U.K. - we're taking a little longer to adopt the flashing amber light used widely in Europe.
Essentially, when the traffic lights are in use, the normal colours are displayed. When they're not in use (at off-peak times), the amber light flashes. The standard signal for "proceed with caution, following the usual rules of the road." This negates the need for a confusing fourth light, or icons. Traffic lights are not usually an issue for colour-blind road users.
The Germans and Dutch have been removing road signs and lights from roads for a few years now in experiments based on the theory that making roads more "dangerous" forces drivers to be more careful.
e.g. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.12/traffic.html
From http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2143663,00.html, "When you don't exactly know who has right of way, you tend to seek eye contact with other road users,'' he said. ''You automatically reduce your speed, you have contact with other people and you take greater care."
My father took part in a double-blind experiment similar to the one you describe four years ago. He didn't know whether the dish was on or not and reported no symptoms, adverse or otherwise.
Last year he had a tumour removed from his brain, the doctors estimated it had been growing for at least a couple of years. He contacted the university group he'd volunteered for. They looked up the research data. Turns out he had been one of the individuals exposed to higher 2.4GHz radiation (the dish was switched on).
The result was statistically irrelevant to their findings but it's hard to shake a niggling anecdotal doubt in his mind, theirs, and mine, that maybe the research and the tumour were connected.
...as the second photo in TOA shows - a difference in position can markedly effect the image of the bend and thus the driver's perception of the right speed or approach to that bend.
Using a 2D display space (the windshield interior) to provide information about a 3D (real-world outside foggy road) space carries flaws.
The display needs to know the driver's eye position to create an accurate representation of where the edge of the road should be in their vision. Without this, I assume the display would be calibrated for an "average" driving position. This poses problems not only for short, tall or just low-slung drivers slouched in their seats, but also fails to accommodate that in low visibility most people change their driving position and "crane their necks" or stick their heads forwards in order to give the impression of being able to see better through the fog.
I'd be interested to know how closely this links with protein structure and self-assembly. It's called secondary and tertiary (and, to a degree, quartenary) structure with proteins and occurs thousands of times a second in living cells, self-catalysed and at room (or body) temperature in most cases: relatively simple long-chain molecules composed from only 20 possible different elements (amino acids) will become incredibly complex structures capable of anything from incredible structural strength to active motor function to similarly complex replication.
While I can see how this may make academic courses more appealing to students, I don't understand the extrapolation to "the workforce" - in a good workplace, there SHOULD BE clearly defined goals, incremental rewards and balanced effort and reward. Any decent manager could tell you that.
However, given that all military programming should conform to the Fully Formal MIL-STD-948 standard, it should be a good deal more robust than most civilian software.
Although, as you say, hardware issues and operator error are another matter...
inversions would form "the cat the and dog" or, more accurately ('scuse the pun) "the cat dna the dog".
FTA:
To achieve this so-called "interoperability," the Commission requires Microsoft to provide protocols--the rules of how to communicate between the so-called "client" computers and servers, and between the servers themselves.
But providing that information sweeps away Microsoft's intellectual-property rights, the company said.
"The Commission calls for functional equivalence," Microsoft lawyer Ian Forrester said, referring to the level of smoothness software needs to work well with Windows. "In order to achieve that, you have to go far beyond interoperability."
Possibly over-simplified and similar to the "Microsoft owns English" analogy, but if you invent a language, it's in your interest for people to speak it, so saying you're not going to teach people how to speak that language is like shooting yourself in the foot.
But I do like the quote from MS's lawyer about "the level of smoothness software needs to work well with Windows". :)
The UK government are trying to introduce all-encompassing ID cards at the moment.
ID cards are useful - I'd agree that while having all your information in one place can be handy, it surely makes fraudulent use easier if you can thereby carry everything you need to "authenticate" several different identities.
While many of the UK government's reasongings may be considered spurious, combatting terrorism and suchlike, they have provided one convincing argument, namely that that "biometric nonsense" ensures that each person has only _one_ ID, whether it's "false" or not, thereby preventing multiple IDs. It shouldn't be possible to register multiple IDs if a simple biometric database search links each of them.
the wider guy
that'd be Steve Page, who still proclaims there is no such thing as the Internet. ;)
has _anyone_ done this?
I've noticed that when I'm making long, steady mouse movements in Photoshop that I hold my breath. I do the same when taking photographs. I have no idea why I do this but I suspect that I don't blink either.
Later today I will attempt to walk _and_ chew gum.
I'll take the appropriate precautions...